He mihi

Welcome to the Waikato Enviroschools Raumati 2025 newsletter.

As we move into the summer term, we’re excited to share everything that’s been happening in the Enviroschools community, including inspiring stories from local schools, information about upcoming events, some fantastic new resources, professional learning and development opportunities and more!

We recently welcomed three new Enviroschools Facilitators, Greta Dromgool, Gypsy Taylor-Hewitt and Nic Roderick to our kaupapa! You can find out a bit more about them and put faces to the names in the 'Enviroschools facilitation team' section at the end of this newsletter.

There has been deep learning going on across the rohe, with Enviroschools supporting lots of collaborative school and community restoration projects, including a māra kai at Ōtorohanga Primary School, a waste transformation at Hauraki Plains College and community restoration work in Waipā.

We’d like to congratulate Tīrau Primary School on their recent holistic reflection. Your students showed incredible manaakitanga (care and hospitality), rangatiratanga (leadership) and enthusiasm – and our facilitators really enjoyed being part of your celebration! If you’re not familiar with the process, why not find out more about holistic reflection?

Speaking of reflection, every year in Term 4 we like to kōrero with each school to review your Enviroschools journey so far, to celebrate successes, identify challenges, and set next steps and goals for the coming year.

Your facilitator will have been in touch this term to arrange a time to carry out your annual planning and reflection. We have a new process to offer called Kato Kōrero, which allows you to pause as a team and explore your Enviroschools journey in depth, collectively identifying next steps for your school. The activity takes approximately one hour and can be completed as part of your annual Enviroschools reflection, celebration and planning. Facilitators can also meet lead teachers individually if this works better. If you haven’t done so already, please confirm a time with your facilitator for an individual or group planning meeting.

We hope you enjoy this edition. Please feel free to forward it on to any interested colleagues.

Ngā mihi, 
The Enviroschools team 

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